Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from power on July 19, 1979. Today, one of the revolutionary ...

MIAMI — A nephew of the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison for his part in a $5 million cash-skimming operation from the family’s Los ...

When Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza forcibly knocked over the Government of his too-independent successor, President Leonardo Argüello (TIME, June 9), the U.S., along with the other nations ...

José R. Somoza (1913-2004) was a Nicaraguan military officer. He was a son of Nicaraguan military dictator Anastasio Somoza García, and brother of Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Anastasio ...